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Post by theauxphou on May 9, 2019 19:00:09 GMT
When I’m at the local library and I see paper slips in DVD covers misaligned, so the top or bottom is exposed and susceptible to being frayed and worn out. It doesn’t affect me but I sometimes have to fix it.
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Post by theravenking on May 9, 2019 21:25:11 GMT
When people don't understand that the current decade began in 2011 not in 2010.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on May 9, 2019 21:32:44 GMT
When people don't understand that the current decade began in 2011 not in 2010.
When people insist on an utterly idiotic convention with no basis on anything concrete that decades, centuries and millennia start at years ending in '1' and not in '0', which makes much more sense.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on May 10, 2019 0:14:31 GMT
Bisexuals - greedy bastards!
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Post by kls on May 10, 2019 0:28:58 GMT
When people don't understand that the current decade began in 2011 not in 2010.
When people insist on an utterly idiotic convention with no basis on anything concrete that decades, centuries and millennia start at years ending in '1' and not in '0', which makes much more sense.
So what year did the first century of our current calendar system or common era start if not 1 AD?
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Post by Nora on May 10, 2019 0:40:18 GMT
water on my face outside of shower/bath/pool/ocean
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Post by Jep Gambardella on May 10, 2019 0:53:27 GMT
When people insist on an utterly idiotic convention with no basis on anything concrete that decades, centuries and millennia start at years ending in '1' and not in '0', which makes much more sense.
So what year did the first century of our current calendar system or common era start if not 1 AD? First century started on year 1 and ended on year 99. Yes, I am aware that that's only 99 years, not 100. So what? It's just a convention anyway. The first decade, century and millennium were exceptions. If Jesus had been born on year 1, it might be different - but we now know that he wasn't.
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Post by Vodkie on May 11, 2019 19:05:50 GMT
When people spell their names totally different but still pronounce it the same as its always been...
Example: Casey - Kaisee. WTF?  That Airwrecka meme makes me think of these videos by youtuber KevOnStage
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Post by Vodkie on May 12, 2019 2:20:53 GMT
These fake National Days
Like apparently today was "national eat what you want day"
Who the hell is responsible for coming up with these fake holidays?
if it's not on the calendar, it's not real!
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Post by Admin on May 12, 2019 19:19:57 GMT
The fact that dictionaries have added this definition to the word "literally"...
used for emphasis or to express strong feeling while not being literally true
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Post by hi224 on May 12, 2019 21:58:33 GMT
basically chalk on a chalkboard yikes and no.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2019 11:57:50 GMT
When people try to name their kid something exotic.
For Example. Jay'Quantius or Sha'mante' or something like that.
If you want to trace your roots to an African country and name them something from your native land... Go for it. I hate when people are just ignorant.
Then you mispronounced their name and they get upset... It's because that name doesn't exist, it's a made up stupid name and their is no correct pronunciation...
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Post by Admin on May 15, 2019 4:42:48 GMT
People who talk like they're asking questions.
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Post by piccoloking on Dec 10, 2019 14:47:27 GMT
The Wall Street Jounal "Goldman's Coder-in-Chief Ditches Wall Street for California Sunshine" By Liz Hoffman Updated Sept. 3, 2019 3:10 pm ET
Martin Chavez began planning his escape from Wall Street in January.
Weary of the New York winter, the Goldman Sachs Group Inc. trading executive retreated to his vacation home in the Berkshires, bought a white board at Target and sketched out his next chapter, named in order of his priorities: Operation Kids, Freedom & Sunshine.
The 55-year-old is retiring from Goldman and moving to California, where he plans to spend more time with his two young children and teach a course at Stanford University. He joined the firm as a young computer programmer 26 years ago.
Mr. Chavez was once seen as a future chief executive candidate, and his ascension up Goldman’s ranks—a gay, tattooed, Latino techie who became the face of a new breed of nerds ruling Wall Street—was a sign of changes across the financial industry.
“I tell people if your top priority is your career on Wall Street, I think that’s interesting and I support you and I don’t want to hang out with you,” Mr. Chavez said in an interview. “My top priority is peace of mind. No. 2 is my kids. No. 3 was Goldman Sachs . GS -2.42%? ”
Mr. Chavez joined the firm in 1993 as a coder in its commodities-trading arm, building mathematical models for senior traders. He was the fourth employee in a skunk works group of engineers that built Goldman’s risk-management and trading database, SecDB.
Mr. Chavez was in some ways emblematic of a new, cooler Goldman. He left the firm in 1997, founded and sold a tech startup, and returned in 2005 after spending a week at a New Mexico monastery considering the offer.
In 2013, he was put in charge of Goldman’s engineering department. On his watch, the department grew to almost 10,000 people, a quarter of the firm’s head count.
He was a favorite of then-CEOLloyd Blankfein,who promoted him to finance chief in 2017. But the job never quite fit. Mr. Chavez struggled on investor calls and was the public face when the bank nearly flunked a government stress test.
“I’m sure it was amazing preparation for something,” Mr. Chavez said Tuesday. “One day I’ll figure out what that is.”
Under new CEODavid Solomon,he returned last year to the trading division, where he has overseen Goldman’s push to digitize the business, cut costs and move more of its client interactions onto apps and other electronic pipelines.
Big banks are leaning heavily on coders as more trading goes electronic, and Mr. Chavez has been a champion of Goldman’s push to open up its internal technology to clients. The firm is building a subscription-based trading app called Marquee; an early version of the app was dubbed “Marty” in Mr. Chavez’s honor. A restructuring earlier this year moved 6,000 engineers into the trading division.
Marc Nachmann,a senior investment-banking executive, will succeed Mr. Chavez. Mr. Nachmann came up raising money and designing derivatives for Goldman’s commodities clients and is known as a wonkish insiderwith risk-management expertise.
The handover comes during a critical spell for Goldman’s trading business. Postcrisis regulations and calm markets have cut its trading revenue 60% since 2009. It has been courting corporate clients and asset managers, while accommodating client preferences that have shifted to simpler products.
Mr. Chavez, who is close to former Google CEOEric Schmidtand investorJim Breyer,said he will teach a course at Stanford on “how software ate finance” and is weighing jobs in venture capital. He said he is interested in whether the same digitization that shook up finance can be applied to health care.
“The transformation of finance through software is about making money programmable,” he said. “The next frontier is making life—genes, cells, organs—programmable.”
And Mr. Chavez, who grew up in Albuquerque, N.M., said he plans to spend time in the sun. “My friend [famed venture capitalist]Peter Thielasked me, ‘When are you going to stop talking about moving to Los Angeles and move to Los Angeles?’”
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Post by piccoloking on Jan 6, 2020 11:31:34 GMT
In his last executive role, Mr. King served as Chief Executive Officer of Investment Banking at Barclays, where he presided over a restructuring of the business and spearheaded a change in strategy following global regulatory changes. During his tenure in the role, Mr. King advised on many of the largest transactions in the Consumer, Technology and Pharmaceutical sectors, including Teva Pharmaceutical’s $40.5 billion definitive agreement to acquire the Actavis generics business from Allergan.
He also managed the issue of BHP Billiton’s $6.45 billion five tranche, multicurrency subordinated bond in 2015, strengthening the bank’s Asia operations. Other transactions include the provision of $5 billion in financing to assist Kinder Morgan restructure its Master Limited Partnership; a $6 billion bridge facility to finance Williams Co.’s acquisition of a controlling stake in Access Midstream Partners and term loan facilities for British Sky Broadcasting Group.
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Post by Nora on Jan 6, 2020 14:23:42 GMT
The word, "narrative". Is it just me, or has use of that word gone up about 2000% in the last half decade? its not just you. it got a completelly new meaning and us abused these days... |
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Post by Nora on Jan 6, 2020 14:28:47 GMT
people being hateful or mean to others online. i dont know if it should/should not bother me, but it does. the level of spite and anger and vitriol some people are able to spew onto other human beings, who are strangers to them, and sometines did nothing else other than existed online (or stated an opinion) is insane. i really wonder whats inside the psyche of some of those people. and how can it be cured  its especially painful for me to watch when it relates to disabled or otherwise different people. |
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its especially painful for me to watch when it relates to disabled or otherwise different people.